Zigomar Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 (edited) Let's start this new year with a 109! Italy was the first foreigner user of the famous Willy Messerschmitt design. When in 1943 the Armistice was signed, a part of the Italian forces went along to fight with the Allies while the other, mostly composed of people from Northern Italy where the main industry factories were still active, which in turn meant a lot of bombing, joined the Fascist Republic, named Republicana Sociale Italiana. Organized with a German flavor, the RSI air force was articulated as an interceptor weapon, using top of the line fighters like the Macchi 205, the Fiat G55, and, when the Italian production of aircrafts came to a standstill after heavy bombing, the Bf 109. So here we have the aircraft of Maresciallo Attilo Sanson, credited with 12 individual victories. No picture of his aircraft are known to exist, nevertheless he is believed to have use the yellow 8 as when he flew with the 362a Sq on Macchis 200. The Italian had good stocks of RLM paints which means that the touch up are not very discernible. Those Eduard kits are gorgeous, and with the G14 on the line, I will surely be busy! Cheers and Ciao! DSC_0002 by jean Barby, sur Flickr DSC_0003 by jean Barby, sur Flickr DSC_0004 by jean Barby, sur Flickr DSC_0005 by jean Barby, sur Flickr DSC_0006 by jean Barby, sur Flickr DSC_0007 by jean Barby, sur Flickr Edited January 7, 2018 by Zigomar 28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve27752 Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 Nice and different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noeyedears Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 Viva La Differance! vury nice model indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Henry Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 Great work. What kit and scale is this ? Bob H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomkil Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 Cracking model! Nice explanation of how the 109 came to be wearing these colours too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 Interesting and well done 109 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Knight Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 Nice build But Italy were not the first foreign user of either the the 109 or the G6 version. In fact Italians were late to use the Messer 109. Many other countries had been using 109s before them 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boom.boom Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 (edited) Beautiful Bf-109! You did fantastic job on that!!! IMHO, the best looking markings for 109s (after RA)! @Zigomar BTW...First foreigner user of 109 was Switzerland and after them Kingdom of Yugoslavia... Edited January 8, 2018 by boom.boom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niknak Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Very nice, I like the Italian markings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil5208 Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 nice work, how was the oil staining done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zigomar Posted January 8, 2018 Author Share Posted January 8, 2018 4 hours ago, boom.boom said: Beautiful Bf-109! You did fantastic job on that!!! IMHO, the best looking markings for 109s (after RA)! @Zigomar BTW...First foreigner user of 109 was Switzerland and after them Kingdom of Yugoslavia... Ok I should have write: "the most important user" like Finland! Sounds better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zigomar Posted January 8, 2018 Author Share Posted January 8, 2018 50 minutes ago, neil5208 said: nice work, how was the oil staining done? China ink with a penholder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Knight Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 2 hours ago, Zigomar said: Ok I should have write: "the most important user" like Finland! Sounds better? No. You should not make such claims at all. Italy used only a few 109s, Spain used more and for longer, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslavakia used more and for longer; who was 'more important' than any other user? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zigomar Posted January 8, 2018 Author Share Posted January 8, 2018 1 hour ago, Black Knight said: No. You should not make such claims at all. Italy used only a few 109s, Spain used more and for longer, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslavakia used more and for longer; who was 'more important' than any other user? I am aware that many countries used the 109! To be more specific I was talking about the one used by the Italian from 43 in the RA and with the RSI. So no big deal and let me know what you thing of the model. Best regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Nicely done! Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zigomar Posted January 8, 2018 Author Share Posted January 8, 2018 Many thanks to you all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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